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  1. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    Quote: My picture at the beginning is my buttercup. For some reason, buttercups look positively awful when they molt.
  2. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    Wow, you guys have some serious Molters!!!! That buff laced frizzle looks like Freddie Kreuger with those wings!
  3. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    Quote: she died soon after she won. her insides came out from her butt. I'm sorry.
  4. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    Nava - what does she look like this year? Those pictures were hilarious from last year.
  5. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    Quote: No, chickens molt once a year (occasionally more) to replace damaged feathers. It just happens that they tend to do it in the fall, replacing the damaged feathers right before the cold of winter sets in (damaged feathers are not as effective for keeping warm). Yes, and it's triggered...
  6. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    Quote: Roughly 3 months, start of molt to getting eggs again. Some go a bit quicker, some not.
  7. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    Some of these girls look like they are getting themselves ready for the oven!
  8. Happy Chooks

    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    She is a Sicilian Buttercup - one of my original girls. This is the hardest molt any of my birds have gone through. She's 2 1/2 years old. Kathy, you cheater! Nothing makes them look more pathetic than when they are wet! I'm waiting for my English Orps to molt - they are just past a year...
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